Flashback: A Christian Arab man from Israel triggered pro-Palestinian students at Oxford simply by telling the truth. He exposed the reality they refuse to accept: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Jews exist, minorities are safe, and women are free, while under Muslim rule across the Arab-Muslim world women are oppressed, Christians are persecuted, and Jews were ethnically cleansed.

📍Jerusalem, April 2024. Friends (including Jews in Europe) blocked me when I posted this photo. On October 7th, the Palestinian cause was liquidated. Whatever hopes there were for a Palestinian state, Sinwar killed it. It wasn’t me. All I am guilty of is analyzing correctly and summoning the courage to adopt the fighter’s attitude. War was inevitably going to expand and Israel was going to do everybody’s “dirty work” in the face of Jihadists, Sunnis and Shiites alike. While the world missed the mark, while people stood idle, many of us stood proud and tall with Israel. Thank you, #Israel — Am Yisrael Chai

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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USAID Inspector General finds 101 additional UNRWA school teachers, principals & staffers are Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 terror attacks. U.S. may soon designate UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization. freebeacon.com/trump-adminis… @AidOversight

If you’ve not read Sam Harris’ substack yet, it’s really worth it. Here are the immediately preceding paragraphs to the one below:

It is the ultimate self reflection for the Democratic party that a Nazi tattooed scandal ridden douchebag looked at their platform and thought "Yeah, those are my people, I can run as a Dem."

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On This Day — June 5, 1948 In April 1948, 22-year-old Robert F. Kennedy traveled through British Mandate Palestine & saw: Jerusalem had a clear Jewish majority & Arab forces were openly preparing to annihilate every Jew the moment the British left. This day, one of his dispatches from the Land of Israel was published in the Boston Post, capturing the grim reality: “The City of Jerusalem has more Jews than Arabs but the immediate surrounding territory is predominately Arab … It is by this road [from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem] that the Jewish population within Jerusalem must be supplied, but it is fantastically easy for the Arabs to ambush a convoy …” He added with chilling detail: “The Arabs … would poison [the water]. The Jews … had a central water system installed … Unfortunately for them, the reservoir is situated in the mountains and it and the whole pipeline are controlled by the Arabs.” RFK saw British troops disarming Jewish convoys while thousands of Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, and Transjordanian Arab soldiers poured in unmolested. He watched the Haganah fighting desperately to keep the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem road open — calling it “our battle of the Atlantic” — because without it, Jerusalem’s Jews would have been starved or slaughtered. With brutal clarity, the young Bobby Kennedy documented what so many still deny today: the Jews were not the aggressors. They were fighting for their ancient homeland “as of right and not on sufferance,” rebuilding a desolate land while Arab forces and British obstruction tried to crush them. A 22-year-old future U.S. Attorney General and Senator saw the truth with his own eyes: the Jews were simply the ones refusing to die.

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage: 1. Israel

The people of Gaza burned this family alive on October 7th. We will never forget Tamar, Johnny, 5-year-old Arbel, Shachar, and baby Omer Kedem Siman Tov. May their memory be a blessing.

Today, thousands of New Yorkers will march in celebration of Israel. Not because they agree with every policy or every government, but because Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, the world’s only Jewish state, and a source of pride, refuge, and belonging for millions of Jews. This year, that pride matters more than ever. At a time when Jews are being harassed, attacked in the streets, and told to hide or apologize for who they are, choosing to march is an act of courage. It is a declaration that Jews will not be intimidated and that the Jewish state will not disappear because others wish it would. The mayor of New York City has cowardly chosen not to attend, and that sends a message. To him, I would say: leadership means showing up for all New Yorkers, including the Jews who call this city home. To every Jewish New Yorker marching today, and to every ally standing beside them: thank you. Your support is felt in Israel. Am Yisrael Chai.

This was Hamas’s own PR: an 8-year-old hostage begging for her life. But they still won the PR battle, with the full support of Western media. If you are wondering why that is, you don’t know much about Jew-hate.

When #healthcare experts become the patients. We dive into elder care transitions, structural flaws in assisted living, and impact of #PrivateEquity on #VulnerablePopulations. Guests John Burton, Bill Applegate, & @MAldridgePhD. 👉bit.ly/GeriPalEp406 @AlexSmithMD | @EWidera

1/5 I'm a cardiologist. I'm also an Iranian Jew. I don't talk about this often on here. But today I want to tell you something about who I am — and why I see the world the way I do. My family's roots in Persia stretch back roughly 2,700 years. We were among the oldest continuous Jewish communities on earth. Synagogues in Isfahan. Scholars in Shiraz. Merchants and physicians in Tehran. We survived every empire that rose and fell across that ancient land. And then, in a single generation, most of it vanished. After 1979, the Jewish community of Iran — once 100,000 strong — collapsed. My family was among those who left. We carried our faith, our language, our poetry, our medical traditions, and the memory of a home that no longer wanted us. We came to America.

“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel

I'm sure that in the next few years we will look back with horror at the weird neglect of delirium as a serious condition in global healthcare practice. #delirium #geriatrics #hospitalmedicine

David Attenborough narrates the Gaza Flotilla activists getting absolutely humbled at a Spanish airport ✈️🦍🇪🇸 Entitled rodents meet Spanish security mammals. Nature is healing. Enjoy the documentary. 📺

🚨 EVER HEARD OF THE “BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL”? Most people have not. In 1891, decades before the Balfour Declaration, decades before the Holocaust, and more than half a century before the founding of modern Israel, hundreds of prominent Americans signed a petition calling for the Jewish people to be restored to their ancestral homeland. It was called the Blackstone Memorial. The petition was written by William Eugene Blackstone and presented to U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Its central argument was simple: Millions of Jews were facing persecution in Russia. Europe did not want them. America could not absorb them all quickly. So the question was asked: Why not restore the Jewish people to their ancient homeland? The memorial pointed out that the international powers had already helped restore other peoples to their historic lands. Bulgaria to the Bulgarians. Serbia to the Serbians. Greece to the Greeks. So why not Palestine to the Jews? The petition argued that the Jewish people had been expelled from their land by force, had never stopped longing to return, and that restoring Jewish autonomy there would be both just and humanitarian. And this was not some fringe document. It was signed by leading American politicians, newspaper editors, clergy, rabbis, judges, bankers, businessmen, and public figures. Among the names were future President William McKinley, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Melville Fuller, and hundreds of others. Think about that. In 1891, major American voices were already publicly saying that the Jewish people had a legitimate historic claim to their homeland. This was not invented in 1948. It was not created by the Holocaust. It was not some colonial project suddenly dropped into the Middle East. The idea that the Jewish people belonged in their ancestral homeland was recognized by major American figures generations before the State of Israel was reborn. The Blackstone Memorial is a reminder that Jewish restoration was not a modern propaganda slogan. It was an old moral, historical, and political argument. And America knew it long before the world pretended to forget. @revenuepath

Until 1948, "Palestinian" overwhelmingly meant Jewish. The Palestine Post (1932): Jewish newspaper, renamed the Jerusalem Post after Israel was founded. The Palestine Symphony Orchestra (1936): built by Bronislaw Huberman to rescue Jewish musicians from Europe. The Palestine Electric Company (Pinhas Rutenberg, 1923): Jewish. The Anglo-Palestine Bank: became Bank Leumi. Keren Hayesod was the "Palestine Foundation Fund." The Jewish Agency's official name was the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Jews carried "Palestinian" passports under the Mandate and used the term as a self-identifier. Arab leaders, meanwhile, rejected it. February 1919: the First Palestinian Arab Congress in Jerusalem declared Palestine "part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time." The slogan was Suriyya al-Janubiyya - Southern Syria. 1937: Auni Abd al-Hadi, founder of the Istiqlal Party, told the Peel Commission: "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. Our country was for centuries part of Syria." 1946: Princeton's Philip Hitti, the most prominent Arab-American historian of his generation, told the Anglo-American Committee: "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not." The PLO wasn't founded until 1964. And even its founding charter explicitly disclaimed sovereignty over the West Bank (Jordanian) and Gaza (Egyptian). A distinct Palestinian national identity, defined against Israel rather than as part of pan-Arabism or Greater Syria, is largely a post-1967 phenomenon. PLO Executive Committee member Zuheir Mohsen put it bluntly in Trouw, March 1977: "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity. Today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese." None of this means the millions who identify as Palestinian today aren't sincere. Identities get constructed, reinforced, become real. That's how nationalism works everywhere. But the sequence matters. A Jewish national identity tied to this land is millennia old. The Arab "Palestinian" identity, as something distinct from Syrian or pan-Arab, is a 20th-century construction. And for its first decades, the people we now call Palestinians actively rejected the label.